Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the concept of redemption and the transformation that comes through faith.
In this quote, Martin Luther expresses the Christian belief in the atonement of sins through Jesus Christ's sacrifice. By identifying Christ with humanity's sins, Luther suggests that believers are liberated from guilt and possess a righteousness not of their own, but imputed through their faith in Christ, leading to spiritual freedom.
Themes
RedemptionFaithSalvationFreedomRighteousness
In practice
Example use cases
During a church sermon on forgiveness and redemption.
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All quotes →Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful to me than before. Then I will properly appreciate the sun, the moon, the stars, trees, apples, as I reflect that he is Lord over all things. ...God writes the Gospel, not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
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It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
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